It is located on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in Mountrail County, North Dakota, United States.

During the calendar year 1934, in the midst of the severe multi-year drought that affected most of North America during much of the 1930s, Parshall recorded a total of 4.02 inches or 102.1 millimetres of precipitation, less than 12 percent of the long-term normal and much less than normally falls in most of the Sonoran Desert.

[7] Randy Hedberg, a former NFL quarterback, was born and raised in Parshall.

Another notable native of Parshall is Raymond Cross, a stand out high school basketball player and now a law professor in Montana.

[8] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.55 square miles (1.42 km2), all land.

24.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

[12] Along with White Shield, North Dakota, Parshall is home to speakers of the Arikara language.

The 2006 discovery of the Parshall Field started the North Dakota oil boom.

[14] Aspects of the oil boom near Parshall were presented in the series Boomtown on Discovery Communications cable channel Planet Green.